Visualisation and animation in a CAL package: Anchors or misconceptions?

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 206-216

  Lim, Cher Ping ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Animation; Case study; Conceptual anchors; Economics; Hypermedia; Secondary; Tutorial; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035531592     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0266-4909.2001.00173.x     Document Type: Article

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